Pacific High School

Thirty educators from throughout the Ventura Unified School District will be honored today during the seventh annual Golden Wings Awards for Teacher Excellence. The evening event is the culmination of a selection process that began in January when parents, business leaders, educators and other community members nominated and selected exemplary teachers from each school in the Ventura district.

The first of three skateboard mini-parks set to open this summer will be unveiled Friday during a grand opening ceremony. Constructed at Westpark in the Avenue neighborhood, the 3,400-square-foot park--and two others being built in the east and midtown sections of the city--was built as a promise kept to local skaters, who in recent years have been booted from commercial parking lots and downtown streets over merchants' safety concerns.

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A search-and-rescue team scouring the Mt. Pinos area over the weekend discovered scattered human skeletal remains and fears that the bones may belong to a Ventura teenager missing since October. Authorities believe the remains are those of 17-year-old Nichole Lee Hendrix, a Pacific High School student who failed to return home after calling her mother to say she was on her way.

Six people linked to a white supremacist gang were indicted Monday on murder and related charges in the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old Ventura girl whose remains were dumped in a steep ravine in the Ventura County back country. The indictments cap a nearly two-year investigation into the death of Nichole Lee Hendrix, a student at Pacific High continuation school in Ventura. Hendrix disappeared Oct. 15, 1998, after telephoning her parents from a Ventura motel room to say she would be home soon.

* The Mary Baird Women's Center at Moorpark College is accepting donations of clothing, toiletries and children's toys to be distributed to battered-women's shelters in Ventura County. The center is in the college's upper library, Room 241, 7075 Campus Road. Collections will continue through October. Information: 378-1492. Silent Auction Features Local Artists' Work * The Camarillo Art Center will hold a silent auction of work by local artists today at 3150 Ponderosa Drive, Camarillo.

A student and a teacher at Pacific Palisades High School were wounded in a drive-by shooting Monday afternoon in front of the school, authorities said. An 18-year-old student was shot in the thigh and the teacher, who is in his 50s, was shot in the calf. They were taken to Santa Monica Medical Center for treatment. "The teacher was hit by a ricocheting bullet and was grazed," said Hilda Ramirez, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District. "Both are going to be OK."

Former classmates will share memories and renew friendships at high school reunions throughout the summer and fall. Scheduled events include: June 18: Santa Monica High School, summer and winter classes of 1938, Riviera Country Club. Shirley Brann Danley, (213) 454-3429; Adrian Atwill, (213) 538-2117, Suzanne Hogan Joyce, (213) 459-3847. Chaffey Union High School, Ontario, class of 1943, Red Hill Country Club, Rancho Cucamonga.

Five suspected gang members are to be charged today with assault for their alleged roles in an attack at a Pacific High School continuing-education classroom, authorities said Wednesday. The teenage boys--a 15-year-old and four 16-year-olds--also are to be charged with battery on school grounds and participation in a criminal street gang, Deputy Dist. Atty. Rhonda Schmidt said.